This monster, that looks like it’s at least a foot across, can be yours for the low price of $35,370 USD! Check out the photos on the eBay Germany listing. Thanks to Seth O for the heads up!

Check out this video of a Nikon D3 shutter release in super slow motion at Jeffrey Fried’s blog! Via GRINZ

The title pretty much says it all! More info: Web page, PDF data sheet, and PDF user manual.

Zeiss are blasting out a huge range of new manual focus lenses: Leica M mount Distagon T* 18mm f/4 C Biogon T* 21mm f/4.5 Nikon F mount ZF Distagon T* 35mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar 50mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar 100mm f/2 ZF Distagon T* 25mm f/2.8 Hasselblad CF mount (appear to be vintage-look versions of the [...]

Carl Zeiss AG Press Release: Oberkochen, August 15, 2006. The Zeiss Ikon SW is the 35mm precision camera for uncompromising superwide photographers. Its lens mount takes any lens with M bayonet, in particular the ZEISS high performance superwide-angle lenses Distagon T* 2,8/15mm ZM and the Biogon T* types from the ZEISS ZM range. An accessory [...]

Some updates on the new ZF Nikon F mount SLR lenses from issue 24 of Zeiss Camera Lens News, released today: "The best we had ever achieved before with any SLR lenses was 250 lp/mm. "The new Planar T* 1.4/85 ZF achieved that same resolution at f/5.6, and even down to f/2. "The new Planar [...]

From Nikon’s press release: "Nikon Corporation has launched the AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED, the world’s first macro lens equipped with Nikon Silent Wave Motor (SWM) and Vibration Reduction (VR) systems. "The new lens offers a host of Nikon’s advanced optical features and technologies such as Nano Crystal Coat, Extra Low Dispersion (ED) glass [...]

Rob Galbraith asked 20 questions of Kornelius J. Mueller, Marketing Manager of Zeiss’ camera lens division, about the new ZF (Nikon F mount) and ZS (M42 screw mount) SLR lenses. Read the interview here.

Zeiss announced their new range of ZF lenses a day early in issue 23/Jan 2006 of Camera Lens News. Highlights: As previously hinted, they will indeed be in Nikon F mounts. They will all be primes. Announced are a 50mm Planar T* (7 elements in 6 groups) and an 85mm T* Planar (6 elements in [...]

According to this press release from Nikon UK, Nikon are discontinuing production of most film equipment, including their range of large format lenses. The flagship pro SLR F6 and the manual SLR FM10 stay, as well as the following manual lenses: Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 Nikkor 50mm [...]